Key Events

Richard McClaren also revealed Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova was unlikely to have been the only athlete blackmailed by IAAF officials.

The revelation that she paid a bribe to avoid a doping ban led this month to life bans being imposed on Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack, Valentin Balakhnichev, former Russian athletic federation (ARAF) president and IAAF treasurer Alexei Melnikov, a senior ARAF coach.

“We maybe only have examined the tip of the iceberg with respect to athletes who have been extorted,” McClaren said.

Commission member Richard McClaren said at a press conference in Munich:

“The information the independent commission has very clearly indicates that the disruption of the federation emanated from the very top - the president Lamine Diack.

He inserted his personal legal advisor Habib Cisse into the IAAF medical and anti-doping department in November of 2011 with the London 2012 and the Moscow 2013 World Championships coming up. He did so to enable Cisse to manage and follow up Russian athlete biological passport cases.

The Russian coaches around this time did not have a good understanding of the ABP process. They had mastered the evasion, manipulation and sometimes destruction of urine samples of Russian athletes so as to not produce positive results, but they had not yet learned how to do the same for the ABP.

The deliberate insertion by the president of Cisse and his actions were intended to achieve the same results of manipulation and delay with the ABP cases involving the Russians.”

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WADA: IAAF council 'cannot have been unaware of the extent of doping'

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have suggested that Lord Coe and the IAAF Council must have known about the extent of doping in athletics.

But WADA president Dick Pound gave his backing to Coe, insisting: “I cannot think of anyone better than Lord Coe to remain at IAAF head and we all have our fingers crossed.”

It comes as WADA released their second report into corruption in athletics on Thursday afternoon after the IAAF were accused of helping cover up systematic doping in Russia.

Pound gives Coe backing

However, Dick Pound has backed Coe to continue in his role as president of the organisation.

He said: “I can’t think of anyone better than the IAAF than Lord Coe.”

(Image: Reuters)

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Key findings part 7 & 8

7. The IAAF rebuttal dated 06 November 2015 was accepted as scientifically sound by the WADA expert group assisting the IC and the IC concurs with that judgment.

8. It was, in any event, improper to group “suspicious” results and “likely doping” into a single category, notwithstanding the inherent weaknesses of using only the database information as a basis for conclusions on doping.

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Key findings parts 5 & 6

5. The IAAF has cut back on the number of urine samples taken to identify EPO use, focusing more on the collection of blood samples.

6. The IC was provided with no explanation for the differences in approach and cautions expressed by the same scientists in previously written scholarly publications on the subject matter and the opinions expressed in the work commissioned by The Sunday Times.

The differences are quite significant.

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Key findings parts 3 & 4

3. The number of blood samples collected out-of-competition in Russia during the same period was limited due to focusing on pre-competition occasions in which blood tests as markers only could be followed up quickly and due to difficulties in Russia, whose accredited laboratory was only ABP accredited in mid-2011.

Getting samples out of Russia within the required 36 hours was not possible due to the assertion of national laws prohibiting such transfers.

4. Notwithstanding any opinions to the contrary expressed by Drs. Ashenden and Parisotto, the IC finds that it would not have been legally possible to bring a successful sanctioning process against any athlete based on the values in the IAAF database.

Key findings parts 1 & 2

1. It is likely that Ashenden and Parisotto (as well as Seppelt and The Sunday Times) may not have realized that the IAAF database was not complete. Certain 77 information that might have been considered relevant was not contained in the database.

2. More important, what has been referred to throughout the discussion as the IAAF database was, in reality, no such thing.

It was a compilation of various tests results, some from the IAAF, some from WADA and some from other ADOs that was assembled by Dr. Guiseppe Fischetto for purposes of targeting athletes for EPO testing.

It contained, for example, no out-of-competition testing results whatsoever between 2007 and 2010, whether in Russia or anywhere.

It is not because there was no such testing, but simply that the Fischetto database did not contain the information.

Throughout this period, the IAAF collected urine samples from Russian athletes, both in and out-of-competition, and tested many such samples for rEPO, leading to discovery of various anti-doping violations.

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Pressure mounts on Lord Coe

Lord Coe is facing renewed pressure on his position as IAAF president after a new report ruled that the IAAF Council and his right-hand man Nick Davies must have been aware of the scale of doping in athletics.

The second report compiled by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency into the Russian doping scandal said the IAAF Council - which included Coe at the time - “could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics”.

It adds that Davies, who stepped aside from his position as IAAF chief of staff last month, was “well aware of Russian ‘skeletons’ in the cupboard”.

The report, announced at a news conference in Munich, states: “The IAAF Council could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics and the non-enforcement of applicable anti-doping rules.

“There was an evident lack of political appetite within the IAAF to confront Russia with the full extent of its known and suspected doping activities.”

Under pressure: Lord Seb Coe (Image: Getty Images)

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The report has found senior staff of the IAAF knew Russian athletes should be banned before the 2013 Moscow World Championships.

However, they did “nothing about it”:

“Far more IAAF staff knew about the problems than has currently been acknowledged. It is not credible that elected officials were unaware”

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Professor Richard McClaren has taken centre stage.

He said: “The disruption of the federation emanated from the very top - the president, Diack.”

Former president of the IAAF Lamine Diack (Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images for IAAF)

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WADA chief Dick Pound has taken to the stage in Munich.

IAAF President Lord Coe is among those in the room to hear the second part of Pound’s report.

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Lord Coe under pressure

WADA report finds IAAF council “could not have been unaware” of “non-enforcement of applicable anti-doping rules”.

Lord Coe under pressure.

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Welcome

Good afternoon, and welcome to our coverage as the second part of Dick Pound’s WADA report is released.

IAAF chief Seb Coe is braced for more revelations as the World Anti-Doping Agency reveal their findings into the doping and corruption that has tarnished athletics.

Russia were suspended from international competition as a result of the first report that was published in November.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is also expected to be implicated in the drugs cover-up as Lamine Diake, leader of track’s governing body, told a lawyer he’d need to cut a deal with Putin to ensure nine Russian athletes accused of doping wouldn’t compete at 2013 world championships in Moscow.